"Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes"
Not for much longer, but for now, I am compelled, for posterity, to explicitly post this new class of imagery, not as supplementary content for an article, but for itself.
This is the new thing in the world of science writing where the editors, who are writers but not visual artists, are using artificial image generation to create imagery corresponding to their writing work. I imagine there are also visual artists who are artificially generating written content for their imagery. And so on. It changes the way we see things, and the way we think. What used to require collaboration between writers and artists, is now a conversation between the writer and their robot, which is a concentrated version of every artist to ever have their work sucked into the wild west of intellectual property previously known as the Internet.
The second you look at this, you just know it was done by the writers and not the artists. It has that forced look of a straight-A high school student trying really hard not to let this stupid state-required art class ruin their GPA. Actually, it has the look of the art teacher who helped the straight-A student... . Like how can you be that good at metal reflections and yet not be able to create a decent composition. How can you cram that much symbolic imagery into one image? It's got the typical lack of aesthetic sophistication and visual imagination that defaults to using 1. people (seen in the doctors in consternation), and 2. writing (seen in the question mark) to communicate meaning. This is what that looks like.
And for those interested, here's the headline for the above image: "One in four doctors believe human preservation and future revival could work, but not without challenges" (one wonders if this was the actual prompt that generated said image).
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| AI Art - Six new isolated millisecond pulsars discovered with FAST - Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes - 2026 [link] |
^Next up. It's standard to talk trash about crappy art here on Network Address, but sometimes we also get impressed. Based on its citation, this is another "image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes", but this one is a pretty cool example of how these things can work out.
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